15 FEBRUARY 1975, page 2

Britain's 'second Lady'

The election of Mrs Margaret Thatcher as leader has done a great deal more than save the Conservative Party from what might have been a much longer and more damaging internal......

Ira Crumbles

It would be a great mistake to assume that the declaration of a ceasefire by the Provisional IRA was — as he assumed in his statement to the House of Commons on Tuesday — a......

Ethiopian Lesson

Those who applauded the fall of the Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, who descanted on the evils and inadequacies of his system of government, and who praised the emergence of a......

Loss To Journalism

Derek Marks of the Daily Express, who died peacefully last weekend, was one of the verY greatest of British political journalists. Again and again he excelled his rivals in the......